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Dr. Thomas Toppino
Dr. Toppino is the Director of the Memory and
Cognition Lab. He serves as Chairperson of the Department of
Psychology and previously served as the Director of Villanova's
Cognitive Science Program.
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Amy Moors
Amy is a second year graduate student.
Last year her research focused on metacognitive decisions in learning.
She currently is working on her Master's thesis, investigating the role
of spacing repetitions in memory and abstraction. Amy received her
undergraduate degree from William Patterson University. Her
long-term interests are in social cognition.
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Amy Coyle
Amy is a second year graduate student
working on her Master's thesis. Her work broadly addresses
processes underlying the spacing effect and the testing effect. Amy got
her undergraduate degree from Indiana University of PA.
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Meghan Davis
Meghan is a second year gradate student
who is conducting her Master's thesis in Dr. Irene Kan's lab. In
the Memory & Cognition lab, Meghan is and has been involved in projects
investigating metacogntive decisions in learning and the role of
retrieval time in the testing effect. Meghan's undergraduate
degree is from Lafayette College.
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Kathleen Dempsey
Kathleen is senior psychology major who
is conducting research in the Memory & Cognition Lab for the second
year. She is working on a project investigating encoding processes
and the spacing of repetitions in children.
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Livia Fortunato
Livia is a senior psychology major who is
working in the Memory & Cognition Lab for the second year. She has
been working on a project studying the role of retrieval time in the
testing effect. |
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Recent Lab Alumni |
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Shaun Baldwin
-- Master's thesis was conducted on the same race effect.
U.G degree from Temple University. |
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Michael Cohen --
Master's thesis investigated metacognitive decisions
related to the distribution of practice. U.G. degree from
Swarthmore College. Now a research assistant in the Social,
Cognitive, & Affective Neuroscience Lab at Yale University. |
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Regina Coles
-- Master's thesis
examined the role of retrieval in the testing effect. U.G. degree
from
Richmond University. Now a Clinical Research Coordinator in the
Neurology Department at Georgetown University. |
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Abby Costello --
Master's thesis investigated how the properties of feedback affect
learning and retention. U.G degree from Muhlenberg College. |
Mike Gillen --
Master's thesis examined the role of adaptation processes in the
perception of reversible figures. U.G. degree from Rutgers.
Now in a clinical Ph.D. program at Northern Illinois University. |
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Photos |
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Tom and Amy M. - Halloween 2007
Michael C. & Amy M. - APS in Chicago, 2008 |
